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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chicago: This Saturday at the Whistler. Launch party for ERRAND WEATHER, the new B-Side Editions book. Doors at 6pm, free admission, 21+ Readings from Deborah Shapiro, @parkeryoung.bsky.social , and Nathan Dragon

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NYC, this Friday 9/25, don't miss the MUTT reading series at KGB Red Room, doors at 7pm. Great lineup.

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Chicago, this Sunday, stop by the Art Institute and check out the Pub Fair, 11-2pm.

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NYC, this Friday 9/25, don't miss the MUTT reading series at KGB Red Room, doors at 7pm. Great lineup.

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New York: Check out this lineup for the launch of Nathan Dragon's Errand Weather. Tuesday!

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A couple of upcoming events to celebrate the release of the latest B-Side Editions book, ERRAND WEATHER by Nathan Dragon. NYC and Chicago. Would love to see you there!

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Early copies of the new B-Side Editions book, ERRAND WEATHER by Nathan Dragon, are in and they're looking good. Linked novellas – suffusive, questioning, beautiful. Out 9/15/26, available to pre-order now. www.bsideeditions.com/shop/p/erran...

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Today! Saturday, July 11 in Hyde Park with @bside-editions.bsky.social at 3 pm!

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'll be talking with @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social about her great, fun new novel MAN OVERBOARD! at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social tomorrow (Saturday 7/11) at 3pm. More info here: www.semcoop.com/event/kathle...

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Tomorrow! Saturday, July 11th at 3:00 pm at Seminary Coop! Come hear me in conversation with the fantastic Deb Shapiro about Man Overboard! -- RSVP here! www.semcoop.com/event/kathle...

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Kathleen Rooney - "Man Overboard!" - Deborah Shapiro | Seminary Co-op Bookstores

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Spring sale is on at the B-Side Editions site. Get 15% off any order with the code SPRING15, through 5/3/26. Books make great gifts and we offer complimentary gift-wrapping. www.bsideeditions.com

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

An excerpt from WATCHING THE DETECTIVE is up at @oldstermag.bsky.social and Neko Case approves! Please check it out if you're curious. open.substack.com/pub/oldster/...

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The next B-Side Editions book, ERRAND WEATHER by Nathan Dragon, has a cover! Publishing in September. Curious about the book? Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/tktktkde...

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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

ANNOUNCING! We are beside ourselves with glee to tell you that @fulmerford.com is this year's StoryStudio Chicago Instructor of the Year! We can't wait to celebrate Juan's award at this year's StoryBall -- May 7 at Ravenswood Event Center. buff.ly/Q2XfUh7

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hey! I'll be at the Oak Park Public Library on Tuesday, 4/14 at 6:30pm, in conversation with poet Christine Poreba, talking about memoir, the power of images, the weirdness of time, parents and kids, and just one more thing... Columbo! oakpark.librarycalendar.com/event/author...

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Author Visit: Deborah Shapiro | Oak Park Public Library

Hear Deborah Shapiro discuss her newest book Watching The Detective, a book mixing memoir and cultu

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

When I talk to people, when I ride on trains, life seems to have some apparent, surface goodness that does not need questioning. —John Cheever, journal

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 11/03/2026

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the annual herpetarium reenactment of John Cassavetes’s A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE.

A bunch of snakes w yellow and gold bands and green eyes

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Had a very fun time chatting with Ben Tanzer on his podcast. I haven’t listened to it yet (hard to hear your own voice) but I do remember referencing those 80s Freedom Rock commercials ("well, turn it up, man!") as an example of how nostalgia can be embarrassing. www.tanzerben.com/blog/this-po...

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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy-Seven - A Hint Of Delight, starring the Deborah Shapiro.

This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Deborah Shapiro (Watching the Detective, Consolation, B-Side Editions). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podc

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I wrote about one part of my reaction to recent events: the importance and nuance of what it means to subscribe to something.

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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Did you know that skunk cabbages are thermogenic - they generate their own heat to melt frozen, icy ground and prepare the soil for new growth in the spring? Join us for a hike in the woods to see skunk cabbages emerging for the spring and raise money for Midwest Immigration Bond Fund.

A photo of a skunk cabbage rising up through the snow. A white text box reads in black font, "Melting ICE. A fundraiser field trip to benefit Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. Saturday, March 14th @ 10:00 am."

A photo of skunk cabbage spathes in the spring. A white text box reads, "Join us for a walk in the woods to see skunk cabbages emerging for spring and learn about winter adaptations in plants. Tickets on sale 2/25 @ noon. 100% of ticket sales benefit Midwest Immigration Bond Fund." A cut out illustration of a skunk cabbage from a vintage field guide overlays the image in the corner.

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Incredibly delighted to see this in the Washington Post (and to see Watching the Detective included alongside Cher Part One). Btw, the holiday sale is still on at www.bsideeditions.com. Get 10% off orders with the code THANKS10 at checkout.

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This means so much to me – thank you, Juan. 2025 has been so rough in so many ways. If this book has added a little light, I'm very happy to hear it.

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I sometimes think about how in the course of his career Columbo met at least four guys who looked like Robert Culp, and three of them turned out to be murderers. Do you think by the fourth one he went in feeling suspicious?

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 30/11/2025

from Deborah Shapiro’s WATCHING THE DETECTIVE

between our parents homes. My fish was named Cuddles.)
"You're so unassuming," Anna said, at the end of
our meeting. "I mean that as a compliment."
Columbo, too, is unassuming. In a way that would serve a detective—or a would-be writer. Unassuming as a function of being exceedingly observant. To put it another way, you don't make too much of yourself because you are occupied with making much out of what is going on around you. As my father would say:
You don't miss a trick. At least, you try not to.
There are, it turns out, several Columbo storylines featuring writers who overestimate their ability to let no trick be missed. "Murder by the Book" (1971) involves a team of mystery writers-one kills the other. The episode was shot by a 24-year-old Steven Spielberg. In
"Publish or Perish" (1974), it's technically a publisher, played by the suave Jack Cassidy, the murderous writer in the aforementioned episode, who does in a bestselling novelist, to collect insurance money and to keep

Photo of Deborah shapiro’s WATCHING THE DETECTIVE

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 30/11/2025

“you don’t make too much of yourself because you are occupied with making much out of what is going on around you” — on Columbo & writers being unassuming

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Just a reminder that B-Side Editions offers the option of free gift wrapping, and books make great presents. I don’t have the time/patience/microphone to make an ASMR gift wrapping video so please accept these inert photos and imagine me whispering “Shop small, if at all.”

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Tonight! Release party for Watching the Detective. At the Whistler. Doors at 6. Would love to see you!

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Coming at you in May 👀@tortoisebooks.bsky.social

HIDDEN RIVER novel
"Lippmann writes like no other" - Paula Bomer, author of The Stalker
SARA
LIPPMANN

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The date is fast approaching... Wednesday 11/19/25 at the Whistler. Would love to see you there.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 30/10/2025

super proud to be part of this @wbez.org story alongside two amazing writers, love that I was photoshopped so that it looks like I’m lurking & about to jumpscare the both of them www.wbez.org/books/2025/1...

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How to write a horror story: Three writers on the art of the scare

The American Writers Museum of Chicago will open an exhibit in November on the influence of religion and culture on creative works, including the horror genre.

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

New book, Watching the Detective, ostensibly about the year I got weirdly obsessed with watching Columbo, but really about so much more. Out 11/18/25. Available to preorder on www.bsideeditions.com 🖤

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Chicago! Save the date for a Watching the Detective book launch party. Weds, November 19th, 6-8pm at The Whistler. Books, beverages, friends, hope to see you there.

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Martin Seay @martinseay.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Do you like cities? Do you think they're miraculous instances of collective creativity, not despite but because of the fact that they always involve complex & improvisatory negotiations among dissimilar individuals? Would you like to explain that to kids? Allow me to recommend LEAF TOWN FOREVER:

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Tomorrow (Friday)! I'll be talking with Naomi Washer about her wonderful new book MARGINALIA at @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social in Chicago. Would love to see you.

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Design and book people: you might want to check out this interview with super-talented designer Matthew Jacobson, who came up with the cover for Watching the Detective, the next B-Side Editions book (out soon) substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Print Is Not Dead

Talking with designer Matthew Jacobson about book covers, records and music, DIY sensibilities, magic, and more

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Chicago, come hear/see Donato read as part of this great lineup. Today!

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Andrew Hertzberg @andhertz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

First time at @roscoebooks.bsky.social, picked up the new one by @tvayyyy.bsky.social and finally got one by @bside-editions.bsky.social - enjoying the patio at Soul & Smoke (I swear this isn’t a paid ad)

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Such a fun time at Exile in Bookville, talking about The Golden Hour, with @specktor.bsky.social

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This is gonna be so good! Chicago, come through!

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This Thursday, 7pm, at Exile in Bookville in Chicago! I'll be talking with @specktor.bsky.social, whose new book, The Golden Hour, is just so great. So much to talk about.

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